Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture 3rd Edition by Marita Sturken, ISBN-13: 978-0190265717
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- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 3rd edition (July 17, 2017)
- Language: English
- 504 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780190265717
- ISBN-13: 978-0190265717
How do you look? This question is loaded with possible meanings. How you look is, in one sense, how you appear. This is in part about how you construct yourself for others to see, through practices of the self that involve grooming, fashion, and social media. The selfie is a powerful symbol of this era in which not only images but also imaging practices are used as primary modes of expression and communication in everyday life. These days, you may be as likely to make images as you are to view them. How you look to others, and whether and where you appear, has to do with your access to such things as cameras, personal electronic devices and technologies, and social media. It is also contingent upon your place within larger structures of authority and in conventions of belief. Technical literacy as well as nationality, class, religion, age, gender, and sexual identity may impact your right to appear, as well as your ability to make and use images and imaging technologies. Nobody is free to look as they please, not in any context. We all perform within (and against) the conventions of cultural frameworks that include nation, religion, politics, family, school, work, and health. These frameworks inform our taste and self-fashioning, and they give rise to the conventions that shape how we look and where and how we appear. How you look, even when deeply personal, is also always political.
Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural landscape and includes topics like the increasingly rapid global circulation of media, the rise of design and DIY cultures, digital media art and activism, and challenges to photojournalism and news media. Challenging yet accessible, Practices of Looking, Third Edition, is ideal for courses across a range of disciplines.
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